6th again in Sunsail Series 3

London Business School repeated their 6th place in the third regatta of the Sunsail series on April 3rd/4th. This was despite managing to mess up the spinnaker flying in as many ways as we could imagine.

In race 1, the crew managed to hoist the spinnaker sideways (clew attached to halyard), which didn't help the speed or control of the boat much, nor did it make for an easy gybe. In race 2, the boat was up with the leaders when the spinnaker was dropped.....and dropped all the way into the sea, where it effectively stopped the boat dead and allowed 3 boats past.

In race 3, there were no spinnaker problems, and the crew finished a strong third. A position that would have been possible n race 4 also, had we not launched the spinnaker between the lifelines, entailing a 5 minute re- rigging operation which lost us places. Later that race, the spinnaker halyard sprang free as we were dropping it.

So all in all, good practice and plenty of mistakes that won't be made again, but not our finest performance on the water.

Joel and his crew came in a creditable 14th, even getting the spinnaker up a couple of times.

Results posted below.

Skipper	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Total	Position
Tom Taylor	1	5	1	1	3	1st
Benedict East	3	1	6	3	7	2nd
Liam Gardiner	2	3	2	4	7	3rd
Chris Brouard	4	4	4	2	10	4th
Edward Harrison	6	2	5	5	12	5th
Klaus Rasmussen	8	7	3	7	17	6th
Kevin Richardson	5	6	7	8	18	7th
Stuart Harding	7	11	8	6	21	8th
Alexandre Chagoubatov	11	10	10	10	30	9th
Iskander Rakhimov	9	8	18	14	31	10th
Neil Pritchard Meaker	16	13	9	9	31	11th
Kevin Toon	10	12	11	12	33	12th
Vadim Volkovoye	12	9	13	13	34	13th
Joel Shinners	13	17	15	11	39	14th
Paul Robinson	15	14	14	20	43	15th
Vladimir Phillips	17	15	12	17	44	16th
Jim Dunn	14	22	16	15	45	17th
Alexey Tyurin	19	22	17	16	52	18th
Ivan Starostin	20	16	19	18	53	19th
Vladimir Chumak	18	22	20	22	60	20th
Gleb Borukhov	22	22	21	19	62	21st